Irish in Ireland AMA

[SrSteveOskowski]

Following on from a Dane in Denmark, I'm Irish, living in Ireland AMA

Assuming you are married to an Irish man, are you tall, blonde and slightly mannish looking?

Following on from another thread, do your parents have rip.ie as their home page?

@pishogue My parents always opened the paper on the deaths first thing☺

Where's the best place for a staycation in Ireland?

@Deadringer, I'm not Danish

@Pishogue, my parents wouldn't go online in a million years, but they do listen to 'the deaths' on the radio on a daily basis.

Well, so do mine, mine. I don’t think my mother entirely trusts the deaths on the computer. They must be backed up by either the paper or local radio.

@thecutecouple, definitely Co Kerry, arguably Ireland's most beautiful county, and no, I'm actually not a Kerry woman but would happily move there in the morning.

Dead is referencing a deeply bizarre other thread where a distraught OP complained that all Irishmen went for tall, mannish blondes.

Ah yes, Kerry Radio deaths. There had to be utter silence while the deaths were read in case she missed any. One of my favourite photos of my parents was taken shortly before my mam died when she got out of hospital briefly to come home for Sunday lunch. First thing she did was go to the deaths in the paper and we got a great picture of the two of them reading through the deaths together. When she died, we had her death in the paper too for old times sake.

And I'd definitely endorse the Kerry recommendation 😉

Is there really anything better than a cheese and onion Tayto crisp sandwich, made with Brennans bread and lashings of Kerrygold butter, washed down with an ice cold glass of TK's red lemonade?

Do you know my cousin Jack Murphy?

Brilliant thread already, OP!

Am cracking up about 'the deaths'. I had no idea this was a thing.

I love Ireland, have spent holidays in Dublin, Cork (land of my ancestors) and Kerry, and would go back in a heartbeat. It's the only place I've ever been to where the local priest turns up to parties in full regalia, and somehow this doesn't dampen the atmosphere.

What do you think are the main cultural differences between the Irish and the Brits?

OpiesOldLady - far from ice we were reared #notions

@MySweetAudrina, would that be Jack Murphy who lives a few miles out the back road, a brother of Paddy Murphy? That'd be Paddy who lives down past the graveyard. Turn right after the church and keep going. If you pass O'Briens pub, you've gone too far. Sure you know Johnny Brien? The fella with the one eyed sheepdog. Was happily married to Mary for nearly 20 years til she ran off with the postman. Must be nearly 5 years now.
So yes, I know Jack Murphy well

@Tolleshunt, I honestly think funerals are the one thing that differ hugely between Ireland and the UK.

Not a tall mannish blonde by the way, a small petite brunette

The deaths as with the televised Angelus are baffling to the UK but the norm there

I miss Kimberly so often, it can be got in the UK but not often

I miss kimberley too - you can usually find it on Bury market if you're near there.

Also it's a while since I had chance to test but is it TRUE that Irish Cadbury is still normal and it's only UK Cadbury that's fucked?

(Please say yes)

Thanks OP. I gather from a friend who commutes to work in Ireland that funerals attract huge congregations, and that people go to funerals of people they've never met, like the parents of work colleagues? I've never known that here. It's rare to attend a funeral if you never met the person. You'd really only do it to support the bereaved in special circumstances, like a particularly tragic death, no other family remaining, that sort of thing. There would be no obligation to do so.

@BartonHollow, nah, all Cadburys is shite since Mondelez took over

@Tolleshunt, oh yes definitely. To be honest if your colleagues mother died and you DIDN'T go to the funeral, it would be seen as odd.
A lot of people don't go to the full funeral though, just the 'removal' the night before. This is when the body is laid out (usually in a funeral parlour but often at home) before been taken to the church that night.
The coffin is generally open here. A closed coffin is fairly rare and would generally only be in the case of something like the person was killed in a bad accident/car crash/fire etc.

That's the big a lot of folk on here don't get because they don't do the :

Shake Hands Night

It's a cultural thing based on solid and small communities that have largely disappeared here

You say, a colleagues mother

In many cases the colleagues mother may have lived next door to Auntie Kathleen

Been the local pharmacist or butchers wife

The colleagues mother could easily also be your husbands first cousin once removed

Death abounds yet again on an Irish thread.
Ask me something else, quick

Is Dustin The Turkey or Dana still at it trying for President?

Who caused the bigger fuss?

The Queen coming or The Pope coming?

Dustin seems to have gone in underground since his failed Eurovision attempt and Dana was always a bit away with the fairies.

The Pope probably got more attention than the Queen, but mostly from the older generation.
Charles and Camilla went down a storm in Cork when they visited.

Anyone else?